An overseas research intern’s journey in Japan
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Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Communication, Internship, Mobility, Perspectives, Postdoc, Research, Scientists on the move
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Posted by Brooke LaFlamme | Categories: stem cells
Stem cells are increasingly being used to develop new disease treatments and to understand the basic biology of a number of diseases. However, one of the questions that still needs to be answered regarding stem cells is how they manage to stay in a pluripotent state, instead of differentiating into other cell types. Understanding how pluripotency is maintained has important implications for the optimization of stem cell-based therapies and to the understanding of disease states such as cancer than involve an aberrant undifferentiated state. Read more